Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1063. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr I Alexeyevich Velikiy (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. AR Poltina (16.84 g, 12h). Novodel issue. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1725 (Arabic date). (six-pointed mullet) ΠETPЪ IИMПEPATOPЬ ICAMOДEPЖEЦЬ BCEPOCCIИ CKИI (six-pointed mullet), laureate, draped, and armored bust right; CПБ below bust / MOHETA HOBAЯ ЦEHA ПОЛTИNA 1725, double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; imperial crown above. Plain edge. Diakov p. 218, N; Bitkin H1378; Severin 653-654; Uzdenikov 640 N. In NGC slab graded AU 58, toned.

Ex Gustav Klingert Collection (A. Hess, 30 May 1910), lot 447.